Rt. Hon Alitwala Rebecca Kadaga the Minister of East African Community Affairs has given green light to the team that composed the East African Schools and Universities anthem, to proceed and record, include lyrics, and produce a video of the proposed anthem on CDs.
“I am so happy that this composition has come from the young people of Uganda, We shall take the CDs afterward to the council of Ministers and the secretary general, play it for them and if it is agreeable it can be adopted because it’s another way of sensitizing our people about the community,” she highlighted.
Kadaga made this announcement at the Ministry headquarters in Kampala on Wednesday.
The first Deputy Prime Minister also noted that the story of this innovation started way back when she received a call from Rt. Lt. Col. Atengi Kasaija invited her to visit Kasawo Secondary School and while there, she was impressed by the student’s presentations about the East African Community (EAC).
“Many Ugandans are not aware of the EAC, I was very happy with Kasawo students who made several presentations about the community the day I visited, and most importantly Kizito who had this wonderful idea of the school’s anthem” Kadaga added.
Edith Mwanje the Permanent Secretary Ministry of East African Affairs noted that appreciated col. Atengi who was the composer of this anthem and she promised to tirelessly work towards selling this anthem to all partner states.
Kizito Robert who represented Rt. Lt. Col. Atengi who was also the former Air force commander appreciated Hon. Kadaga for the support morale and zeal she eluded to them and also the office of the Chief of Defense Forces that assisted him with the band which has done great work on this composition.
“There quite a number of things I based on to compose this song and amongst them is togetherness, I request that you keep my dream alive by pushing this composition to the limit” Kizito added.
Kizito also highlighted that it’s the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces that took the initiative of translating the anthem to Swahili and for six months now they have managed to reach the 17th stage out of the 27 that are required.
